To my knowledge Lamu is the only Kenyan town with a historical square. Generally speaking town squares are where a network of streets intersect and expand to create a larger civic space, a node. Mkunguni square, located infront of the Lamu fort is at the intersection of the seafront, the main bazaar, and the market. It is flanked by two ancient trees with benches underneath their canopy. Mkunguni is a meeting space, it's where people gather in Lamu town. When a politician vis

Vidaka a decorative niche in a swahili house use to store items of significance embellished with decorative lime plastering.

cham·fer /(t)SHamfər/. To cut away at a right-angled edge or corner to make a symmetrical sloping edge. Chamfered edge of a stone building in Lamu. The urban patchwork of Lamu stone-town is composed of buildings that are sited roughly two metres apart. The streets between the buildings are tight and hence oneway traffic is comfortable and two way traffic is intimate (brushing up against a loaded donkey is common). Generally, buildings in the stone town are oriented to facing